Hideaki Itsuno, who directed the Dragon’s Dogma series and other major games for Capcom, announced on Saturday that he’s leaving the company. “From September, I will start developing a new game in a new environment,” he wrote in a post on X. Itsuno has…
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Sacrificial Animals by Kailee Pedersen
There’s something about the idea of coming home and reawakening dormant familial trauma that just makes for great horror stories, and …
Continue reading "What to read this weekend: Rural horror infused with Chinese mythology, and the lush alien world of Convert"Owning a Playdate comes with the perk of already having access to 24 games at no additional cost from the bundled-in Season One — and some pretty good ones to boot. But there are a ton of great games outside the Season One offerings too, for when you’v…
Continue reading "The best Playdate games for 2024"Blue Origin’s New Glenn heavy-lift rocket and its Mars-bound NASA payload now have a tentative launch date. The company said on Friday that the inaugural flight will take place no earlier than October 13, carrying two probes built by Rocket Lab to help…
Continue reading "Blue Origin targets mid-October for New Glenn’s inaugural flight and launch of NASA’s Escapade Mars mission"The new Terminator anime heading to Netflix looks absolutely brutal in a trailer that dropped this weekend. Terminator Zero is set in 2022 and 1997 (the year of Judgment Day, as described in Terminator 2) and focuses on new characters: Eiko and the sci…
Continue reading "Netflix drops a gory new trailer for Terminator Zero, an anime from the studio behind Ghost in the Shell"Polaris Dawn, a private space mission that aims to complete the first-ever civilian spacewalk, is expected to launch this week. On X, SpaceX said it’s targeting Tuesday August 27 at 3:38AM ET for liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket that will carry the Polar…
Continue reading "SpaceX will soon send the Polaris Dawn crew off to attempt the first commercial spacewalk"Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram, was arrested at an airport near Paris on Saturday, reportedly as part of a preliminary investigation into the app’s lax approach to moderation and failure to curb possible criminal activities, according to Reuters, whi…
Continue reading "Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was reportedly arrested in France"Threads is testing the option for users to put a 24-hour expiration timer on their posts, after which the post and all replies would disappear, Stories-style. A spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that the feature is being tested among a group of user…
Continue reading "Threads is testing disappearing posts that expire after 24 hours"After more than two months of tests and discussions, NASA has decided that astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will come home in February 2025 on a SpaceX Crew Dragon, and the Boeing Starliner they flew to the International Space Station on in J…
Continue reading "Starliner astronauts will come home in February on a SpaceX Crew Dragon"It’s seemed like everyone this summer has been talking about Valve’s in-development MOBA shooter, Deadlock, except Valve itself. Thousands of people have reportedly played it, some of whom have leaked screenshots and gameplay footage. But Valve has rem…
Continue reading "Valve finally confirms its next game, Deadlock, with a bare-bones Steam page"